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The Book of Coming Forth By Day is a comprehensive set of sacred utterances written on papyrus rolls along with corresponding vignettes which dates from the earliest part of the 18th dynasty (ca. 1600 B.C.) in the New Kingdom. These utterances enabled the deceased to travel as a…

The two ancient Latin translations of the Vita Antonii were prepared within sixteen years after Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, composed that text following the abba's death in 356. The elegantly literary Evagrian translation is extant in numerous medieval manuscripts, but the…

This is a study of the ancient Hebrew words which refer to cutting tools. This lexical field is here divided into sub-fields based on the uses of the implements to which the words refer, and the first few chapters offer detailed studies of the tools used in agricultural work, wo…